1937-d 3 legged buffalo now for sale on eBay, take a look, 7 bidders and $175 on the way to a $1000!
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Take a look at the following flea bay auction, the number is 252843833014
Just copy and paste this number into the eBay search line, do a search on it and you will be taken right to the auction “action”!!
Seven people have already bid on this up to about $175 and with over 3 days of auction action left this might get close to the
$1000 mark. This winning lucky “bidiot” will feel he really got himself a bargain.
pics follow.....
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And gem brilliant uncirculated to boot!!
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soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo is this whizzed? cleaned? Why's the reason of calling them a "bidiot?"
Strong missing leg. Tough variety.
They are bidiots because it's not an authentic 3 legged buffalo. It looks like someone altered a regular 37-D to make this thing. That "missing leg" looks amputated rather that abraded away on the original die.
Definitely not authentic 3 legger.
The entire coin looks fake to me.
Link for this great opportunity?..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1937-D-5C-3-Legs-Buffalo-Nickel-/252843833014?hash=item3adeaab6b6:g:EpsAAOSwA29Y406L
The counterfeits are more rare than the authentic 3-leg.
Why not make it a 2 feather 3 leg with no "F" and watch heads essplode!
just a term a friend of mine made up, combination of bidder and idiot.
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I had contacted the seller yesterday morning and told him this was a fake. He contacted me and gave me his phone number. eBay had canceled his auction but he managed to give me his phone number “in code” so to speak which is a no no no on eBay. When I say in code it was a series of numerals interspersed with the numbers written out, for example a phone number like 330-366-7852 would be sent as 3 three 0 3 six six 7 eight 5 two. eBay really tries to limit conversations with sellers. You gotta be very careful with your conversations thru ebays messaging system. I bet when I call him he tells me that he had no idea that this coin was a fake. I see that he now has no other listings on eBay. I bet he did not know this was a fake. Will post here tomorrow after i talk to him. Someone else other than myself had contacted the flea bay to let them know it was a fake and they took it down.
More later......
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This is one of those fakes , I think made by Alibaba
Few years ago, guy came into the shop saying how he bought a choice UNC 3 legger for 500 bucks. It was very similar to this, as soon as I told him it was fake, he took off back down to get his money back. went he got back, guy was gone. it was a roadside vendor selling coins .
To anyone experienced with Buffs, it screamed fake.... Of course, it is possible the seller did not know that... will be interested to hear the results of your conversation..... Please follow up.... Thanks, Cheers, RickO
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This has always been one of the most obvious fakes to determine. Of course, there's the 'moth-eaten' rear leg stuff, but the fact that the buffalo is smaller on the genuine coin, makes it almost impossible to fake. Of course, Jerry Allibaba could make a counterfeit die from a genuine coin someday......
As you may notice first of all the missing leg was never there, no evidence of die polish, just a nice crisp end to the leg at the top. It is truly amazing how many people do not know how to tell this from a fake
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We shouldn't make fun of a disabled animal.
Wow..... I have no experience with these and even I could tell it was questionable. Indeed, that is a clean amputation and not a polished die.
All the genuine 3-leggers I've seen also have a moth-eaten appearance to the back of the Indian's neck, close to the short feather. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You are correct. The pictures were posted just out of focus for a reason. Always beware bad pictures. They can hide things.
I called the eBay seller who listed this and he told me he bought a whole roll of these at a flea market. It was in an old bank wrapped roll. The roll had been made up to appear weathered and he thought he hit the jackpot with an entire roll of
37d 3 legged buffs in unc! He just put one on the flea (flea = eBay) to see what it would bring. He did not tell me what he paid for the roll but I think they were selling for 2 bucks each when they were in their hey-day on eBay, many years ago.
Bet he paid well for the roll, and in effect got rolled!! And he thought these were real and had no idea of what the actual
characteristics of the coin were. Now he knows!!
When these were for sale on fleabay by the Chinese counterfeiters all the dates and mints were struck, they were being offered in complete sets for about $160 I remember. And this stuff is all over the place and coming out now and then as real coins.
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A genuine coin is very easy to verify-there's at least half a dozen die markers on the real deal. Anyone who's gonna sink big bucks into one owe it to themselves to learn what those die markers are.
If the Buffalo ain't pissin', the leg ain't missin'. (overheard at the Georgia Numismatic Show years ago) LOL
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Yep! That is one of the diagnostic features.
The 1937-D three legged Buffalo is not that rare. When I was a dealer, if you could buy they at a certain level, they were an easy resell, and there was not shortage of them.
That's easily the easiest one to remember. But there's a few regular '37-D dies showing this so there's a possibility that someone who knows this could alter a one of these dies, so it should be used with at least one of the several other die markers.
Of course, if a coin lacks it then that coin is a definite fake, no matter how well done it is.
There are obviously some 1937d buffs made from the die pair right before the leg was removed and these would probably have some if not most of the diagnostics present. This would make a good alteration candidate, though I have never seen one.
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